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The native New Yorker talks about her artistic inspirations, recent collaborations with contemporary artists and all the ...
Before Lee Krasner (1908-1984) became known for her large-scale, rhythmic all-over paintings, like “Gaea” (1966) at the Museum of Modern Art and “The Seasons” (1957) at the Whitney Museum ...
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is presenting Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s, an exhibition of over 250 works of sculpture, painting, fashion, photography, furniture and more, drawn entirely from ...
Lee Krasner rejects the word 'drip' as an accurate descriptor of Jackson Pollock's paintings; Charles Burchfield reads poems that he penned on the verso of his paintings; and Emmy Lou Packard recounts ...
This was an eye-opener. During her lifetime, Lee Krasner always seemed to labor in the shadow of her husband Jackson Pollock, but this exhibit at the Akron Museum of Art proved that she was a ...
Q: The painter Lee Krasner became known for destroying or cannibalizing some of her works. Why did she do that? — Earl Alan | Philadelphia Krasner was both keenly self-critical and very ...
“If it hadn’t been for Lee Krasner, Jackson would not have been the power he was.” There was a time when Pollock was a nobody and Krasner was the one to watch – an artist who, in the 1930s ...
You’ve heard of Jackson Pollock but you may have never heard of Lee Krasner. Krasner was an artist, Pollock’s wife, and the woman who made him famous. She also changed everything about the ...
That's when he meets artist Lee Krasner, who puts her career on hold to be his companion, lover, champion, wife, and, in essence, caretaker. To get him away from booze, insecurity, and the stress ...